The theory of Markov Decision Processes - also known under several other names including sequential stochastic optimization, discrete-time stochastic control, and stochastic dynamic programming - studies sequential optimization of discrete time stochastic systems. Fundamentally, this is a...

Dynamic Portfolio Strategies: Quantitative Methods and Empirical Rules for Incomplete Information investigates optimal investment problems for stochastic financial market models. It is addressed to academics and students who are interested in the mathematics of finance, stochastic processes, and...

1 Introduction and Basic Risk Models -- 2 Risk Assessment Modeling -- 3 Statistical Risk Modeling -- 4 Causality -- 5 Individual Risk Management Decisions -- 6 Choosing among Risk Profiles -- 7 Multi-Attribute, Multi-Person, and Multi-Period Risks -- 8 Multi-Party Risk Management Decision...

Bernard Roy, Forty Years of Esteem and Friendship -- Connectivity, Transitivity and Chromaticity: The Pioneering Work of Bernard Roy in Graph Theory -- Decision-Aid Between Tools and Organisations -- Talking About the Practice of MCDA -- Multi-Criteria Decision-Aid in a Philosophical Perspective...

Conventional Optimization Techniques -- Evolutionary Computation -- Single Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Constrained Optimization -- Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: A Critical Review --...

Scope and Relevance of Project Scheduling -- The Project Scheduling Process -- Classification of Project Scheduling Problems -- Temporal Analysis: The Basic Deterministic Case -- Temporal Analysis: Advanced Topics -- The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem -- Resource-Constrained...

Theory of Vector Optimization -- Nonlinear Multiobjective Programming -- Goal Programming in the Period 1990–2000 -- Fuzzy Multiobjective and Multilevel Optimization -- Interactive Nonlinear Multiobjective Procedures -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Multiple Objective Optimization -- Data...

“Everything should be made as simple as possible—but not simpler” Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon. The phenomenon addressed by Traffic Theory is, of course, automobile traffic, and the problems associated...